SoundAssured review for Omnisend Email Marketing & SMS

Omnisend is a decent email platform—less intuitive and feature-rich than Klaviyo, but it gets the job done. However, pricing changes have made it far less appealing. They charge for all contacts, even if they’re not subscribed to email or SMS. Essentially, you’ll be billed for anyone who has interacted with your site, regardless of whether they opted into communications. In our case, we were only emailing ~ 30% of the contacts we were being charged for—effectively doubling our costs just for them to store a simple list of our customers and people who abandoned cart. Their pricing structure feels unreasonable, and when we raised concerns, their response was dismissive. We’re planning to switch platforms once our migration plan is ready. It’s unfortunate because Omnisend had potential, but their pricing strategy makes it hard to justify staying.